Late-stage water eruptions from Ascraeus Mons volcano, Mars: Implications for its structure and history

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 479-491

  Murray, John B ^a   van Wyk de Vries, B ^b   Marquez, Alvaro ^c   Williams, David A ^d   Byrne, Paul ^a,e   Muller, Jan Peter ^f   Kim, Jung Rack ^f  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channels; Mars; Tectonism; Volcanism; Water ice mudflows

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LAVA FLOWS; MARS EXPRESS SPACECRAFT; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRESSURE MELTING; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; TECTONIC FEATURES; VOLCANIC EDIFICE; WATER EROSION; WATER ICE;

ICE; LANDSLIDES; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

VOLCANOES;

IMAGING METHOD; MARS; MUDFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SATELLITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; VOLCANO;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; REUNION;

EID: 77953325726     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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